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Biomimetic robot navigation

✍ Scribed by Matthias O. Franz; Hanspeter A. Mallot

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 295 KB
Volume: 30
Category: Article
ISSN: 0921-8890
DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8890(99)00069-x

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✦ Synopsis

In the past decade, a large number of robots has been built that explicitly implement biological navigation behaviours. We review these biomimetic approaches using a framework that allows for a common description of biological and technical navigation behaviour. The review shows that biomimetic systems make significant contributions to two fields of research: First, they provide a real world test of models of biological navigation behaviour; second, they make new navigation mechanisms available for technical applications, most notably in the field of indoor robot navigation. While simpler insect navigation behaviours have been implemented quite successfully, the more complicated way-finding capabilities of vertebrates still pose a challenge to current systems.

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